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Starla
Starla wakes in the morning and does squats, ten of them before she sits with a gravity-heavy thud back on the cot. Only two full push-ups before her arms give out.
She tries to remember all the resistance exercises her mother tried to get her to do back on Silk Station, and comes up with tricep dips off the edge of the cot. She manages three.
Jumping jacks: fifteen.
Sit-ups: six.
Starla collapses panting on the cot until she’s caught her breath, then does the whole routine again.
She’s been picked up and slammed back down, shoved into restraints, marched down hallways at will, and she’s done with it.
After today, she’s never going to be weak again.
She’s made it five rounds and her muscles are shaking with the effort when she finally slumps back on the cot.
Starla knows
